Amy Wallace

Amy Wallace (July 3, 1955 – August 10, 2013) was an American writer. 2Early life She was the daughter of writers Irving Wallace and Sylvia Wallace and the sister of writer and populist historian David Wallechinsky. 2Career Wallace was to write books of lists that included topics from the rare, curious and unusual to crime and horror. In 1977, she was living in Berkeley on her brother's commune during school breaks, working with him and their father on what was to become a #1 bestseller, The Book of Lists. The book ran to three editions compiled with her father and brother. One included her mother. Wallace used the lists format in two further books not written with her family. In 2007, she compiled The Official Punk Rock Book of Lists with Handsome Dick Manitoba and the following year she co-wrote The Book of Lists: Horror with Del Howison and her boyfriend Scott Bradley. In 1990 she also wrote an erotic novel, Desire. 2Personal life Wallace had a relationship with Carlos Castaneda, which she wrote about in her memoir, Sorcerer's Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda, published in 200